ID: 700008689 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008689	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Calendar Miniatures from a Book of Hours (cutting (partial work); Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561) (Flemish Illuminat...; about 1550; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 93.MS.19; Ms. 50; previous number L.93.MS.39)

Note: 2 bas-de-page miniatures. Simon Bening painted this pair of miniatures back-to-back on a single leaf of a book of hours. The miniatures originally appeared at the bottom of two calendar pages that listed church holidays. Each page was devoted to a particular month, and each miniature depicts an activity associated with the month. In these miniatures, Bening showed that landscape backgrounds, with their distinctive weather conditions, could be even more evocative of a particular month than the activities themselves. Despite their small size, the scenes are as ambitious in scope and composition as independent paintings of considerably larger dimensions. Admiring these scenes as independent paintings, a previous owner of the cutting framed it and hung it on the wall like any other landscape painted on canvas or wood.

Titles:

Calendar Miniatures from a Book of Hours (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Miniatures from a Book of Hours (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Ms. 50 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Book of Hours (C,U,VL,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

cutting (partial work) [300403972] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by state>)

detached leaf [300379890]

..... (Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, leaves (gathered matter))

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1550

Creator Display:

Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561) (Flemish Illuminator) [preferred,JPGM]

Bening, Simon (Flemish illuminator, ca. 1483 - 1561) Qualifier: undetermined Extent: undetermined [500115179]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Brugge [7007867] West-Vlaanderen (province), Flanders (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 93.MS.19; Ms. 50; previous number L.93.MS.39

Display Materials: Cutting containing 2 bas-de-page miniatures images from a detached leaf, tempera colors and gold paint on parchment

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	bas-de-pages [300198388]
	.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, layout features, <images and ornament for layout features>)

Dimensions: Leaf [cutting]: 5.6 x 9.6 cm (2 3/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

genre

landscapes

Specific Subjects:

	hours (prayers) [300404017]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name), prayers (compositions)) (AAT)

	boats [300178749]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), watercraft, <watercraft by general type>) (AAT)

	horses (species) [300250148]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Perissodactyla (order), Equidae (family), Equus (genus)) (AAT)

	peasants [300230852]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>, farmers (people in agriculture)) (AAT)

	rivers [300008707]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), natural landscapes, bodies of water (natural), bodies of freshwater, <bodies of freshwater by biome>, riverine bodies of water) (AAT)

	villages [300008372]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), inhabited places, <settlements by form>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Calendar Miniatures from a Book of Hours	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Miniatures from a Book of Hours	........ [VP,JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. 50	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Book of Hours	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

....................... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1551/simon-bening-calendar-miniatures-from-a-book-of-hours-flemish-about-1550/

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)